| This is interesting, Tatyana.
I would like to know more about the nutritional aspects.
The body is very efficient.
It will change protein into energy if the proper nutrition is not available.
I would want to know what the mechanism is that tells the body to waste the muscle and why. What are the precursors to the gene activation? What stimulates the gene activation?
I wonder if it is related to nutrition.
If there is no contraction in the muscle does the body see that muscle as useless to spend valuable energy resources on it and therefore "wastes" it?
For some things such as being bed ridden or in a cast, the muscle is not being used and if the nutrition is not adequate it does seem logical that the muscle would be canibalized for energy. To be able to slow that down seems to be a good thing, but if it is slowed down then what will the body then do to supply it's energy.
Last edited by Peg; 04-09-2006 at 11:09 PM.
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